Barbacoa languages

The Barbacoa languages (named after the city of Barbacoas in Colombia ; English Barbacoan ) are an indigenous language family of South America that is widespread in Colombia and Ecuador and consists of seven individual languages (the ISO 639-3 code is given in square brackets ) :

Andaqui:
- Andaqui [ana] (extinct, formerly in Colombia)
Cayapa-Colorado:
- Chachi [cbi] (approx. 3,500 speakers in Ecuador)
- Colorado [cof] (approx. 2,300 speakers in Ecuador)
Coconuco Group:
- Guambiano [gum] (approx. 15,600 speakers in Colombia)
- Totoro [ttk] (approx. 4 speakers in Colombia, as of 1998)
Pasto group:
- Barbacoas [bpb] (extinct, formerly in Colombia)
- Awa-Cuaiquer [kwi] (approx. 21,000 speakers in Colombia and Ecuador)

The Barbacoa languages are possibly related to the Páez and form with him the Páez-Barbacoa family .

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Timothy J. Curnow: A grammar of Awa Pit (Cuaiquer). An indigenous language of south-western Colombia. Dissertation, The Australian National University, 1997.
Timothy Jowan Curnow, Anthony J. Liddicoat: The Barbacoan languages of Colombia and Ecuador. In: Anthropological Linguistics. Vol. 40, No. 3, 1998, ISSN 0003-5483 , pp. 384-408, JSTOR 30028647 .
Timothy Jowan Curnow: Why Paez is not a Barbacoan language: the nonexistence of "Moguex" and the use of early sources. In: International Journal of American Linguistics. Vol. 64, No. 4, 1998, ISSN 0020-7071 , pp. 338-351, JSTOR 1265907 .

Barbacoas. In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016.